. The fruits of Ontario. Fruit-culture. Flesh: yellow; texture firm; flavor rich, sweet and luscious. QtALiTY: dessert, very good; cooking, very good. Value : home market, first class. Season : late August. WHITAKER. The best of its class fruited at our St. Lawrence station. OuiGiN : a seedling of Wild Goose; raised by J. T. Whitaker, Texas; closely resem- bling its parent. Tree: vigorous; rapid grower; spreading habit; healthy; foliage bright green, free from shot hole fungus; late bloomer; class Chickasaw. Fruit: oval; size medium; cavity shallow; suture traceable; color bright
. The fruits of Ontario. Fruit-culture. Flesh: yellow; texture firm; flavor rich, sweet and luscious. QtALiTY: dessert, very good; cooking, very good. Value : home market, first class. Season : late August. WHITAKER. The best of its class fruited at our St. Lawrence station. OuiGiN : a seedling of Wild Goose; raised by J. T. Whitaker, Texas; closely resem- bling its parent. Tree: vigorous; rapid grower; spreading habit; healthy; foliage bright green, free from shot hole fungus; late bloomer; class Chickasaw. Fruit: oval; size medium; cavity shallow; suture traceable; color bright red, with raanv white dots and thin bluish bloom; skin thin. Flesh : color yellow ; texture moderately firm, juicy ; flavor sweet and good. Quality: good. Value : market second class. Season: September. WICKSON. Among the largest and finest of the Japan plums, but not productive enough to be profitable as a market variety. Introduced with a great flourish and largely planted, but in most cases it has proven a disappointment. Origin: grown from seed of Kelsey by Luther Burbank. of Santa Rosa, Cal. ; from its habit the tree appears to have some relation to Prunus Simoni. Tree: habit very upright, bearing fruit mostly on fruit spurs; hardy; blooms .darly and abundantly' but sets very little, fruit; should be planted with such productive sorts as Burbank for cross pollination; class Japanese. Fruit: form oblong conical, apex a point; size large to very large; skin thick; color yellow, mostly covered with rich brownish red; bloom thin; stem stout; cavity large, deep, abrupt: suture very decided from base to apex. Flesh: semi-cling; color yellowish, translucent with yellow veins; texture firm for shipment, but tender and juicy when fully ripe; flavor sweet, rich, aromatic. Quality : very good for all purposes. Value : market first class. Season : mid Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability
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